Explore the Era

Delve into the postwar Los Angeles art world in this online archive, which provides additional material related to the exhibitions on view at the Getty Center. Learn about hipsters and happenings, and the venues across the city where all the action took place through images from the archives and first-hand accounts with the artists.

Felix Landau Gallery

Felix Landau opened his gallery in 1951, ushering in an era when La Cienega Boulevard would be the center of Los Angeles’s gallery scene. Not only did he support several important Californian painters and ceramicists, he also held exhibitions of European artists such as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and Francis Bacon, bringing many of their work to Los Angeles for the first time.